Installing Or Upgrading Novell Edirectory On Netware; System Requirements; Prerequisites - Novell EDIRECTORY 8.8 SP3 Installation Manual

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Installing or Upgrading Novell

eDirectory on NetWare

Use the following information to install or upgrade Novell

Section 1.1, "System Requirements," on page 11

Section 1.2, "Prerequisites," on page 11

Section 1.3, "Hardware Requirements," on page 12

Section 1.4, "Forcing the Backlink Process to Run," on page 13

Section 1.5, "Updating the eDirectory Schema for NetWare," on page 13

Section 1.6, "Disk Space Check on Upgrading to eDirectory SP3 or later," on page 14

Section 1.7, "Installing or Upgrading Novell eDirectory on NetWare," on page 14

1.1 System Requirements

The system requirements to upgrade to eDirectory 8.8 SP 3 are,

NetWare version 6.5 SP7 or later

Administrative rights to the eDirectory tree to enable you to modify the schema.

1.2 Prerequisites

IMPORTANT: Check the currently installed Novell and Third Party applications to determine if

eDirectory 8.8 is supported before upgrading your existing eDirectory environment. You can find

out the current status for Novell products in the

Novell eDirectory 8.8? (http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?10099872.htm)

also highly recommended to backup eDirectory prior to any upgrades.

If you are installing into an eDirectory tree that has NetWare and Windows servers, each

NetWare server must be running:

NetWare 5.1 with

or later

NetWare 6.0 with

or later

NetWare 6.5 with

or later

Each Windows server must be running eDirectory 8.7.3 or later.

(Conditional) NICI 2.7 and eDirectory 8.8 support key sizes up to 4096 bits. If you want to use

a 4 KB key size, every server must be upgraded to eDirectory 8.8. In addition, every

workstation using the management utilities, for example, iManager and ConsoleOne, must

have NICI 2.7 installed on it.

TID - What Novell products are supported with

Support Pack 8 (http://support.novell.com/filefinder/9331/index.html)

Support Pack 5 (http://support.novell.com/filefinder/13659/index.html)

Support Pack 3 (http://support.novell.com/filefinder/18197/index.html)